Insert punchline here: Cleveland, Ohio will host the 2014 Gay Games, organizers announced at a press conference in Cologne, Germany.
We worked on the 1994 games, so it’s terrifying to think that 20 years have passed.
Maybe gay athletes will storm Browns Stadium, above.
More at Outsports.
“I was a living contradiction. I was still a self-hating gay man going to a straight psychotherapist with the intention of getting cured and getting married. There was no ‘gay pride’ back then — there was only gay fear and gay isolation and gay distrust and gay self-hatred.”
That’s gay eminence Edmund White on his new autobiography City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s, which – according to Towleroad – chronicles his journey through a “Crisco-slathered” decade.
A warning to “Julie and Julia” fans: City Boy is not a memoir about cooking with lard.
PS -The New York Times called White “a kind of sexual werewolf”, which we love.
The nice people at OURsceneTV.com link back to OP-ed, and we do the same for them.
So the least we can do is tell you about an amazing projdect they’re doing for National Coming Out Day:
“OURsceneTV.com is producing a very special video project to coincide with National Coming Out Day (Sunday, Oct 11) and we’re asking you, our viewers, to share your own coming out story, in your own words.” (more…)
